“当然。”狐狸说。
"Good morning," the little prince responded politely, although when he turned around he saw nothing.
“我的糊口很单调。我捕获鸡，而人又猎杀我。统统的鸡全都一样，统统的人也全都一样。是以，我感到有些腻烦了。但是，如果你如果顺服了我，我的糊口将充满阳光。我会辨认出一种与众分歧的脚步声。别人的脚步声会使我躲到地下去，而你的脚步声就会像音乐一样让我从洞里走出来。再说，你看！你看到那边的麦田吗？我不吃面包，麦子对我来讲，一点用也没有。麦田不会让我有任何感触。而这真令人绝望。但是，你有金黄色的头发。那么，一旦你顺服了我，这就会非常美好。麦子是金黄色的，它就会使我想起你。到时，我乃至会喜好那风吹麦浪的声音……”
就如许，小王子顺服了狐狸，但是转眼就要分离。
因而小王子又去看那些玫瑰。
“这也是一种常常被忽视的事。”狐狸说，“它就是使某一天与其他日子分歧，使某一时候与其他时候分歧。比如说，那些猎人就有一种典礼。他们每礼拜四都和村庄里的女人们跳舞。因而，礼拜四就是一个夸姣的日子！我能够一向漫步到葡萄园去。如果猎人们不在牢固的时候跳舞，每天又全都一样，那么我也就没有假日了。”
“那么我该当作些甚么呢？”小王子说。
"I want to, very much," the little prince replied. "But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.""One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me...""What must I do, to tame you" asked the little prince.
第二天，小王子又来了。
狐狸久久地看着小王子。
思考了一会儿，他又说道：
"You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on. "One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you― the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.